Russia has the capacity to produce sufficient military equipment and mobilize enough soldiers to offset the losses it incurs in the conflict with Ukraine, according to Ants Kiviselg, the head of Estonian intelligence, the local news agency ERR reported on Feb. 13. “If we talk about numbers, they will be able to fire 10,000 shells for 365 days, and […]
Russian police have put Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas, its state secretary and Lithuania’s culture minister on the wanted list, according to the Russian Interior Ministry’s database. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ms Kallas is wanted for “desecration of historical memory”. Russian state agency TASS said the Baltic officials were accused of “destroying monuments to […]
Estonia is set to carry on building a defence line on the border with Russia, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s claims that he is not going to attack Poland or the Baltic states. Source: Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur in an interview with dpa, as reported by European Pravda, citing Tagesschau Details: Pevkur warned against […]
The presidential elections in Russia scheduled for March will have an impact on the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine, the Estonian General Staff has suggested. Source: Estonian public broadcaster ERR, citing Colonel Tarmo Kundla, Head of the Operations Division of the Estonian Defence Forces General Staff, as reported by European Pravda Details: “The upcoming […]
If Ukraine’s partners donated just 0.25% of their GDP to Ukraine’s struggle against Russia, this would “win the war”, said Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas during a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Vienna on Feb. 8. “The military strength of the coalition supporting Ukraine is 13 times greater than Russia’s.Just look at our defense […]
Estonian intelligence has seen signs of a gradual decrease in the intensity of Russian offensives in Ukraine but notes that the Russian army is gearing up for another assault near the town of Avdiivka (Donetsk Oblast). Source: Colonel Ants Kiviselg, Chief of the Estonian Defence Forces Intelligence Centre, during a briefing on 26 January, as […]
Martin Herem, Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces, has said that new intelligence on Russia’s ability to produce munitions and recruit people into the army has prompted NATO allies to reassess and issue a series of warnings about the need to prepare for a long-term conflict. Source: Bloomberg, as reported by European Pravda Details: Herem […]
Martin Herem, the commander of the Estonian Defense Forces, said that NATO underestimated Russia’s ability to supply its war in Ukraine, and Russian production of artillery shells is far outstripping European efforts, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 24. The European Union pledged in March 2023 to deliver one million artillery shells to Ukraine by March 2024, […]
Russia must withdraw 300,000 troops from Ukraine in order to threaten NATO with an attack, Estonian news outlet ERR wrote on Jan. 23, citing the country’s Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief General Martin Herem. “I am not going to prove here that Russia is a threat. But for this threat to materialize, we need to take into […]
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that allies can help Ukraine defeat Russian troops by allocating part of its economic production to military needs. Source: European Pravda; Bloomberg. According to Kaja Kallas, each member of the Contact Group on the defence of Ukraine (Ramstein format) should annually send Kyiv the equivalent of 0.25% of its […]
Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia, believes that Europe has three to five years to prepare for a possible military threat from Russia on the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Alliance. Source: Kallas in an interview for The Times, as reported by European Pravda Details: Kallas referred to the assessment by Estonian intelligence, according […]
MILAN — Estonia’s Milrem Robotics is assessing the possibility of producing several of its unmanned platforms in Ukraine, a move that could put the company’s Emirati owners in a tricky position vis-à-vis the Gulf country’s ties to Russia. At the First International Defense Industries Forum, held in Kyiv last month, Milrem announced that it had […]